FIFTY-FIFTH BIENNIAL REPORT THE NORTH CAROLINA OFFICE OF ARCHIVES AND HISTORY 2012-2014 BIENNIAL REPORT OFFICE OF ARCHIVES AND HISTORY July 1, 2012–June 30, 2014 FIFTY-FIFTH BIENNIAL REPORT OF THE NORTH CAROLINA OFFICE OF ARCHIVES AND HISTORY July 1, 2012 through June 30, 2014 Raleigh Office of Archives and History North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources 2015 © 2015 by the North Carolina Office of Archives and History All rights reserved NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL RESOURCES SUSAN W. KLUTTZ Secretary OFFICE OF ARCHIVES AND HISTORY KEVIN CHERRY Deputy Secretary DIVISION OF HISTORICAL RESOURCES RAMONA BARTOS Director DIVISION OF ARCHIVES AND RECORDS SARAH KOONTS Director DIVISION OF STATE HISTORIC SITES KEITH P. HARDISON Director DIVISION OF STATE HISTORY MUSEUMS KENNETH B. HOWARD Director NORTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL COMMISSION MILLIE M. BARBEE (2015) Chair Mary Lynn Bryan (2017) Valerie A. Johnson (2015) David C. Dennard (2015) Margaret Kluttz (2019) Samuel B. Dixon (2019) B. Perry Morrison Jr. (2017) Chris E. Fonvielle Jr. (2019) Richard Starnes (2017) William W. Ivey (2019) Harry L. Watson (2017) EMERITI: Kemp P. Burpeau, N. J. Crawford, H. G. Jones, William S. Powell, Alan D. Watson, Max R. Williams CONTENTS DeputySecretary’sReport............................1 Roanoke Island Festival Park .......................13 TryonPalace................................ 16 NorthCarolinaTransportationMuseum.................28 DivisionofHistoricalResources........................34 Education and Outreach Branch......................34 ResearchBranch.............................. 38 WesternOffice...............................42 HistoricalPublicationsSection......................49 OfficeofStateArchaeology........................55 StateHistoricPreservationOffice.....................64 DivisionofArchivesandRecords.......................73 CollectionsServicesSection........................82 DigitalServicesSection..........................83 GovernmentServicesSection.......................85 SpecialCollectionsSection........................87 DivisionofStateHistoricSitesandProperties................92 EastRegion.................................98 WestRegion................................107 CuratorialServicesSection........................114 StateCapitol................................117 DivisionofStateHistoryMuseums.....................118 NorthCarolinaMuseumofHistory...................119 Mountain Gateway Museum and Heritage Center ...........132 MuseumoftheAlbemarle........................134 MuseumoftheCapeFearHistoricalComplex.............137 North Carolina Maritime Museum System ...............139 GraveyardoftheAtlanticMuseumatHatteras............141 North Carolina Maritime Museum at Beaufort ............144 North Carolina Maritime Museum at Southport ...........150 Appendixes 1.TheNorthCarolinaHistoricalCommission................153 2. Appropriations and Expenditures, July 1, 2012–June 30, 2014 .....154 3. Appropriations and Expenditures, 1964–2014 ..............155 4.RosterofEmployees............................156 5. Complete List of Publications Issued by the Office of Archives and History, July 1, 2012–June 30, 2014...........170 6. Complete List of Exhibits Displayed by the Office of Archives and History, July 1, 2012–June 30, 2014 ............185 Biennial Report Office of Archives and History July 1, 2012–June 30, 2014 Administrative Organization Office of Archives and History North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources June 30, 2014 Deputy Secretary Archives and History Kevin Cherry Tryon Palace* Roanoke Island Festival Park* North Carolina Transportation Museum Kay P. Williams, Executive Director Kim Sawyer, Executive Director Kevin Cherry, Interim Director Division of Division of Division of State Historic Division of Historical Resources Archives and Records Sites and Properties State History Museums Directorship Vacant Sarah Koonts, Director Keith Hardison, Director Kenneth B. Howard, Director Education Branch Collections Management Branch East Region N.C. Museum of History Research Branch Electronic Records Branch West Region Mountain Gateway Museum and Western Office Government Records Branch Curatorial Services Section Heritage Center Historical Publications Section Information Management Branch State Capitol Museum of the Albemarle Office of State Archaeology Public Services Branch Museum of the Cape Fear State Historic Preservation Office Resource Management Branch Historical Complex Special Collections Branch N.C. Maritime Museum, Beaufort Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum, Hatteras N.C. Maritime Museum, Southport *Oversight by commission BIENNIAL REPORT OF THE OFFICE OF ARCHIVES AND HISTORY July 1, 2012–June 30, 2014 Kevin Cherry, Deputy Secretary This is my first contribution to the biennial report of the Office of Archives and History. In August, 2012 Secretary Linda Carlisle and the North Carolina Historical Commission, chaired by Dr. Jerry Cashion, did me the great honor of offering me the position of Deputy Secretary of the Department of Cultural Resources/Director of the Office of Archives and History (OAH). I was excited to accept the offer, but I was also apprehensive, as Secretary Carlisle warned me of continuing, serious financial difficulties following the Great Recession and the resulting weakened state of the Department due to a series of deep reductions in appropriations, amplified by annual reversions. I was cheered, however, by the thought of meeting the promised inevitable challenges alongside colleagues that I knew to be truly talented and steadfastly dedicated. I have long enjoyed the Office of Archives and History’s services and programs, having been a Tar Heel Junior Historian and a teenaged genealogist researching family history in the State Archives. (The first place I ever drove outside of my hometown when I received my driver’s license was to the State Archives.) Then, as a graduate student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, I sat at some of the same Archives tables as I research a graduate thesis. During my childhood through young adult years, I managed to visit nearly all the State Historic Sites with my parents or my friends, and I still carry with me the Deputy Secretary’s Report memory of racing back from the beach to attend my first day of graduate history classes, only to break down in New Bern. With a few fraternity pals I had to wait two days for an automobile part to be delivered. Our motel was within extended walking distance of Tryon Palace, and our visit there was the highlight of the ill- fated trip. I will be forever grateful to the ticket taker at the Waystation who let us “go on in for free.” Later, I was happy to serve as a volunteer at the North Carolina Transportation Museum; a member of the executive board and later president of Friends of the Archives; and a member of the executive board and then president of the Federation of North Carolina Historical Societies, all before joining the Department of Cultural Resources as a Consultant for Special Collections in the State Library in 2000. That position allowed me to work closely with colleagues in Sites, Museums, and Archives, where I learned more about the institutions that I had so long respected. I later left that position to teach at East Carolina University and then work for the federal government, before returning home to begin as Deputy Secretary toward the end of October, 2012, just preceding the November elections. With the election of Governor Pat McCrory, the entire Department immediately went into transition activities: preparing budget, personnel, and activity reports and making presentations for the transition team; inventorying, packing, and moving special office artifacts in the Capitol and cabinet secretary offices; preparing the Executive Mansion; securing papers for transfer to the State Archives; and helping plan the inauguration (reminding new staffers of protocol, assisting with logistics, providing reports and planning documents from previous inaugurations, and securing units for the inaugural parade). The activities took place during what was already one of the OAH’s most busy times for special programming, the holiday season, when there are candlelight tours, tree lightings, and fundraisers of all types for the Office’s more than 40 institutions. The Department’s staff was in the midst of doing all of this while also trying to make the deadline for an important study required by the legislature’s Program Evaluation Division. The study mandated five-year business plans for Roanoke Island Festival Park, Tryon Palace, and the North Carolina Transportation Museum to determine how they could become more self-sufficient. Each of the institutions hired outside consultants and, with some slight variance, each consultant determined that, while all three could become more self-supporting, none could become totally self-supporting. They also determined that a substantial initial investment would be needed at all three to move any of them to a greater degree of self-reliance. In addition to managing the study, OAH was working to meet the information requests of the Office of Management and Budget and the Office of Fiscal Research, as the former constructed the new governor’s budget for the upcoming biennium and the latter helped craft the legislature’s. On January 2, 2013, the Secretary of Cultural Resources Designee Susan W. Kluttz visited the department for the first time in her new role, and an even more in-depth round of transition activities began. During the